Miriam R Stone

Miriam Stone is one of the young adult authors included in Betsy Franco's anthology THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU: POEMS AND WRITING BY TEENAGE GIRLS. She contributed the poems "Damn, I Look Good," "A Bad Hair Day," and "To Live." Miriam Stone grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and is currently an undergraduate student at Columbia University, where she is studying anthropology and creative writing. Of her memoir, she says, "Writing AT THE END OF WORDS was never a choice for me but a necessity. To surrender to words and the power of creativity was to allow myself to heal." She has traveled and studied in Europe
and the Americas and works as a human rights activist in New York City.